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Serving the public : the good food revolution in schools, hospitals and prisons / Kevin Morgan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morgan, Kevin, author.
- Series:
- Manchester Capitalism Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food service--Great Britain.
- Food service.
- School children--Food--Great Britain.
- School children.
- School lunchrooms, cafeterias, etc--Great Britain.
- School lunchrooms, cafeterias, etc.
- Hospitals--Food services--Great Britain.
- Hospitals.
- Prisons--Food services--Great Britain.
- Prisons.
- Food--Quality.
- Food.
- Food supply--Social aspects.
- Food supply.
- Access to Healthy Foods.
- Food Service, Hospital.
- Schools.
- Food Services.
- food service.
- Medical Subjects:
- Access to Healthy Foods.
- Food Service, Hospital.
- Schools.
- Prisons.
- Food Services.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2025.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A revealing account of what we feed our citizens in schools, hospitals and prisons. Access to good food is the litmus test of a society's commitment to social justice and sustainable development. This book explores the 'good food revolution' in public institutions, asking what broader lessons can be learned. In schools the book examines the challenge of the whole school approach, where the message of the classroom is being aligned with the offer of the dining room. In hospitals it looks at the struggle to put nutrition on a par with medicine and shape a health service worthy of the name. And in prisons it shows how good food can bring hope and dignity to prisoners, helping them to rehabilitate themselves. Drawing on evidence from the UK, US and Sweden, Serving the public highlights how public institutions are harnessing the power of purchase to secure public health, social justice and ecological integrity. The quest for good food in these institutions is an important part of the struggle to redeem the public sphere and repair the damage wrought by forty years of neoliberalism.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- PART I: FOOD IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE
- Reclaiming the public plate
- PART II: SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS AND PRISONS
- Food for life: the whole school approach
- Catering for health: the quest for good food
- Doing time: food behind bars
- PART III: FOODSCAPE OF HOPE
- The Good Food movement
- Prospects for change.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-8047-2
- OCLC:
- 1482985865
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